Quotes about Spirituality

For everything that comes is a gift, the meaning always carried out of sight to renew our whereabouts, always a starting place. And every gift is perfect in its beginning, for it is "from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.

it is by the place we've got, and our love for it and our keeping of it, that this world is joined to Heaven.

I am a man who has hoped, in time, that his life, when poured out at the end, would say, "Good-good-good-good-good!" like a gallon jug of the prime local spirit. I am a man of losses, regrets, and griefs. I am an old man full of love. I am a man of faith.

For many of the churchly, the life of the spirit is reduced to a dull preoccupation with getting to Heaven.

So what was still and dark wakes up, Becomes intelligent, moves, names Itself by hunger and by kind, Walks, swims, flies, cries, calls, speaks, or sings. We all are praising, praying to The light we are, but cannot know.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.

It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117